Death and shame resist being united in a single public image

Evidence

Fielding notes with regret: ‘To unite the ideas of death and shame is not so easy as may be imagined … I will appeal to any man who hath seen an execution, or a procession to an execution; let him tell me. When he hath beheld a poor wretch, bound in a cart, just on the verge of eternity, all pale and trembling with his approaching fate, whether the idea of shame hath ever intruded on his mind? much less will the bold daring rogue, who glories in his present condition, inspire the beholder with any such sensation’ (Fielding, 450). — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 116

Categorization

• XREF: This failure to bind shame to death is one mechanism driving the shift from spectacular punishment to disciplinary concealment — the hidden, continuous, normalizing punishment of the panopticon that works through shame rather than against it. — connects to: Public executions required a witnessing crowd to constitute their meaning and effect — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 113

Related

• Public executions required a witnessing crowd to constitute their meaning and effect (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Public executions required a witnessing crowd to constitute their meaning and effect #expands (0.78) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 113